What on earth is going on over there?
With "over there" you mean "in a typical US high school"?
No the parallels are not the same. United Kingdom, and I'm not just centering my dismay solely at England, used to be a peaceful and quiet country, with the odd wretched crime like the Moors Murders or
Harold Shipman occurring, but not knife and gun crime especially at the extent of what it is today.
American gun and knife crime has more history than in the UK, regarding the general populace. Knives and guns are easily acquirable in the US.
Something of great distress. Linked to the drunken state of the individual in the original post, one wielding a knife stabbing people at random is quite horrifying considering the police are not armed.
The British Government has to put an end to this lunacy.
Or is it all downhill from here?